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Nicolas Tenzer: “The question of evil is a gateway to strategic analysis”

2024-02-01T18:09:53.805Z

Highlights: Nicolas Tenzer: “The question of evil is a gateway to strategic analysis” The political philosopher calls on the West to take stock of the ‘total war’ that Putin is waging against Ukraine and the democracies. “I re-examine the doctrine of realism invoked by so many of our strategists. I use Raymond Aron's term "pseudo-realists" to show that they have been and remain incomprehensible,” he says. The pseudo-realist did not understand that the perpetuation of endless crimes had to be taken into account.


INTERVIEW - In his book Our War, the political philosopher calls on the West to take stock of the “total war” that Putin is waging against Ukraine and the democracies.


LE FIGARO.

- You are publishing a book on the flaws in Western strategic thinking and how they have led to the geopolitical disaster in which we find ourselves mired, with a high intensity conflict in the heart of Europe:

Putin's war against Ukraine

and democracies.

NICOLAS TENZER.

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I showed that the concepts in use among practitioners and theorists of international relations are ineffective in the face of the reality of the total war that Putin is waging against democracies.

I re-examine the doctrine of realism invoked by so many of our strategists.

I use Raymond Aron's term "pseudo-realists" to show that they have been and remain incomprehensible by calling on realism to justify dealing with mass crime.

True realism consists of considering threats accurately.

The pseudo-realists did not understand that the perpetuation of endless crimes, the systematic violation of international law had to be taken into account in…

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Source: lefigaro

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